the thumbnails come from in (in this case) ogg files? I realize that it may perhaps not a VLC question (as VLC just displays them) but perhaps
there's ``expertise'' in the crowd here to shed some light resp. direct me to the right direction....
Here's the question in more detail: I have some ``home-made'' ogg-files. Home-made in the sense that they don't have really a digital
origin, it's not a download. The files are orginally taped from radio (some evenl from FM radio and originally really taped on a magnetic tape
, Later I transferred them to minidisc,and finally I digitized them via audacity, for instance into ogg files.
Now, what spooks me: in quite some cases (but not all) VLC shows some moderately fitting thumbnail picture. Sometimes the resolution is rather coarse grained (as
if there's noise in the picture)
What puzzles me is: where does the picture come from? I doubt that the pictures can somehow be secretly have been hidden in the source, as the source sometimes
had been radio. I doubt that there is a "data base" of pictures that has been looked up to make the connection, as they are not popular music stuff, just some radio featues.
So: has it been injected into the oggs via tools like audacity (but then again: how)? Also that seems strange as I did the following: first I transferred the complete file (with differrent
features and potcast into digitized format. So that file contained different "topics" in one big audio file. Only afterwards I cut it up into individual ``podcasts'' like 30 minutes worth
of an ogg-file, and it's those pieces which are shown with a (sometimes) characteristic thumbnail.
Or is it VLC that figures out some fitting graphic? But again how? Perhaps it's even just based on the file name. As an example: I have a file "borgiapopes.ogg" which contains
an old radio feature about the Renaissance-popes from Florence and VLC shows the coat of arms of the those popes! Which tool was smart enough to show that or add that?
It spooks me
Thanks, Martin
